Study to show yourself approved...

Not just approved unto people; is the direction of this verse. We are to look to the eye of God as the one to whom we answer in our study.

If we accepted this advice from scripture, it would free our minds to soar in study. It would free our minds to soar in expression. We fear that scripture will not stand the test of this or that conflict. Are we the author of scripture? We are not. Are we the author of our faith? We are not. Our faith is penned by God Himself. Our scripture is penned by God Himself. When we siphon Him from education we are inviting confusion to follow and to dominate.

Blessed are the meek

Like children searching for the hidden pictures in a puzzle, we are to search for the invisible God, who lovingly shows himself to our watching gaze!

Leaning on The Everlasting Arms, even at Christmastime

Regard for my low estate! {meditation on the birth of Christ}

He hath regarded the low estate of His Handmade

He cares and he pays attention to me.
He knows about my joys and pains,
What can I say about his stooping low to see me,
What can I say about his groans on my behalf,

He was on the cross and I was in His care
He was bruised and beaten to create a new spirit in me,
He had regeneration and redemption of my soul on his mind,
When He paid the price for me.
What a tremendous regard for the low estate.

Are You Employing your songs for Jesus?

Joy to the earth! the Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

Joy to the World the Lord has come!

Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room, And heav'n and nature sing, And heav'n and nature sing, And heav'n, and heav'n and nature sing.

I do love this Christmas hymn. It has so much blessed meditation to it. It seems to bid everyone to listen to the wonder of the condescencion of God to this fallen planet of earthlings.

Get ready! Prepare your heart to receive the reality of the personal nature of the message of salvation. It is to the whole earth, but it is a very personal relationship. Heaven and nature are singing about it. If you awake to the reality of Christ's invitation to abide in Him, you will join a song that will be yours forever. Keep singing, if you are a holy part of the Christian song!

Great Expectations!!!!~~~~~Keep the candle burning! {a reprint from August 2011}

I was struck afresh by the blinding power of pride, as we watched Great Expectations yesterday. Estella could no more see the blindness of unbelief, than the beauty that she projected in the mirror. Riches and beauty are a blinding source of unbelief, sometimes. Pip, who was struggling between two worlds, was the source of our eyes view of this close tendency in our own souls.

We watch this humble and stricken young orphan grow to desire the accomplishments and acquirements of wealth and beauty and the things that they afford. I love how there is no commentary to the book. The story speaks for itself. What does it profit, if we gain the whole world and lose our soul? Or, What will a man give, in exchange for his soul?